Old road west from Cañon City, Colorado

1977

Robert Adams

Associated Names
Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image shows a landscape with a rugged hillside dominating the view. The perspective is from an elevated position looking across and slightly downward at the terrain. The horizon is high in the frame, with a row of distant hills or mountains rising gently from the left side. The closer hillsides are sparsely dotted with shrubs and small trees, creating a patchwork effect on the rocky terrain. The details of the nature are intricate, with each shrub casting small shadows. The color palette is monochromatic, in grayscale, giving a timeless quality to the scene. The play of light and shadow enhances the visual textures, while shadows add depth and contrast to the left side of the scene.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lou and Di Stovall

  • Dimensions

    image: 28 × 22.7 cm (11 × 8 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.3 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.194.11


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lou and Di Stovall, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom right in graphite: Robert Adams; by artist, bottom left in graphite: Old road west from Cañon City, Colo.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite perpendicular: A


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